Hi Christian, You are right on-the-ball here. What the asian colleagues would want is exactly what you suggested - intro to the core of the standards and what they mean in simple short form. They may also want more interactive hands on stuff regards FOSS apps rather than talks on them. The thing is many have attended FOSS conferences where they heard about apps but never really saw them working!
Since installation is the most important part, this must be well documented. Issues regards the version of different software that work and do NOT work are important in FOSS -eg: the exact Apache/Tomcat/java/mysql/postgresql/php/python versions that that work together for that particular application, and those that do not. Nandalal --- Christian Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Klaus, > > > Re question 3, I would like to suggest we look at > the topic "How can FOSS > > applications share data with other existing > healthcare applications?". This > > aim of the topic is that there already are > well-established standards (HL7, > > LOINC, SNOMED, etc.) in use in healthcare systems > and that to be able to > > integrate into existing healthcare institutions > any new (FOSS) system must > > be able to use these standards. We started on this > topic at the London OSHCA > > meeting, but much more work needs to be done. > > yes, you are correct. As I wrote yesterday in my > other email on > "Getting OSHCA organised", it should not: > 1 Define technical architectures > 2 Mandate use of specific standards .. nor try to > define its own > That is at least what we in the committee agreed > upon. Opinions welcome. > > In other words, OSHCA should focus on > inter-operability using *existing* > standards, instead of defining its own, as you > write. However, it may > give recommendations on which standards to prefer. > Although OSHCA would > be neutral assessing standards, open standards would > clearly be preferred. > > My thoughts are that it'd be nice to have one-hour > presentations of > standards like HXP, HDTF (CORBAmed), OpenEHR, HL7, > xDT etc. on one day. > Ideally, the presentations would give few theory and > demonstrate on > practical examples (code snippets, live demo or > whatever), how they work, > just like at a developer's conference. Although I > know basic principles > behind most of these standards, the conference would > already be worth > visiting for me, because I'd get essential knowledge > in a compact form. > And this is presumably also what our Asian > (developer) colleagues > expect from the conference: to get a brief overview > of important > technologies. I suggest to exclude terminology > standards this time, > or to plan just one presentation giving an overview > of some of them. > Instead, we should focus on pure data exchange. > > But these are just my ideas and wishes. Others in > this list may vote > me down and change the conference agenda. Tell us > your wishes and we > will try to realise them. > > Christian > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather
